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Let me say a second time that this is speculation, but perhaps my friends at the U of C were afraid of what might happen if I continued to insist on the fact that Alan Greenspan had plagiarized my work: a money spigot might turn. That spigot might be located somewhere in Washington DC. As a result, the U of C might be deprived of that life-giving (green and glistening) river of cash.
We have seen on TV what happens in Africa during the dry seasons. Unseemly disputes break out at water holes between big game animals. One would surely hate to see U of C faculty reduced to a comparable state. Perhaps, therefore, it was for that very reason that Mr. Larry Arbeiter, Director of Communications at Chcago, told me over the phone that, with respect to the virus-gender question, scientific truth "doesn't matter." In later e-mails, Mr. Arbeiter asked me twice not to quote him, but I'm afraid I can't accomidate him about that particular quote. In fact, truth does matter. Winston Churchill has been criticized for saying that, "the truth is so precious that is must be surrounded by a bodygaurd of lies." Churchill was a politician and not a scientist. Even so, he did not in any way imply that the truth doesn't matter. In May of 2006, a second member of the microbiology department at Chicago agreed that it is reasonable to say that, "All viruses are male." That individual was Dr. Dominique Missiakas. At the end of January, 2006 Dr. Greenspan was due to be wheeled off to the DC Home for Infirm and Decrepit Bureaucratic Fakes, which one imagines is a capacious facility. Continue |
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